Huckabee Strategy: I Am The New Reagan

When I saw the headline declaring Huckabee Reagan's heir, I figured, consider the source - The Telegraph. That is until I came to this quote:

"People are always asking: 'Who's the next Ronald Reagan?' Well, I was with the old Reagan. I can promise you that this man comes as close as I've ever seen."

That's from Ed Rollins, Huckabee's new campaign manager. Policy wonks and Right-leaning politicos with any sense of history, or a real sense of Reagan beyond his communications skills, will be appalled. What remains to be seen is just how relevant Reagan's legacy is to the average voter and if a political operative now obviously without scruples can pull this off.

I knew Reagan - simply as a voter, of course. And policy-wise Governor Mike Huckabee is no Reagan, that's for sure.

Comments

[Yoda]

Lay off the crack pipe, Ed Rollins needs to do.

[Fred Beloit]

Commercial pilots may no longer fly after 60 (soon to be 65). Perhaps politicos ought to follow suite.

[BobInStamford]

Leave it to the 28%ers to want to compare themselves to a senile old man who is most memorable for making movies with a monkey.

[seekeronos]

"--- ...a senile old man who is most memorable for making movies with a monkey. ---"

Yep. That'd be the same guy who played a critical, if not the most important, role in ending the Cold War, and pulling the economy out of the malaise it had suffered under one of your great heroes, Jimmah Cartuh.

BTW, you might want to revise your figures: now, Right-thinking Americans now number as the 34% of Americans support the Commander-in-Chief.

Of course, the DemCong still hovers in the very low teens, last time I checked.

[Robert K]

"Welcome to the Cafe '80's where it's always morning in America, even in the afterno-no-noon! ha, ha, ha!" -Quote from Back to the Future II, 1989, in the year 2015. Yep, in 2015 we'll have retro '80's restaurants with TV waiters with Michael Jackson and Ronald Reagan. Why were both George Bush's unpopular? Did it have something to do with both father and son started war in the Persian Gulf/Iraq? Clinton was voted in because people wanted change and Bush Sr. wasn't cutting it. Now people hate his son, too for what he did in Iraq, losing too many lives. I remember Reagan, I was between 6-14 during his time as President. My school years (k-12) were during the Carter, Reagan, and Bush Sr. years. I graduated high school 1992. I was born when the Nixon scandal was going on, Jan 14, 1974. I don't know who I want to be the next president, I haven't voted since the Clinton elections I think, since that was the year I turned 18 (1992).